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Peter Sheldon obtained his Master's Degree in Economics from the University of East Anglia in Great Britain, specializing in labour economics. His employment background includes four years of university level teaching and eight years of economic research and analysis in the public and private sectors. Mr. Sheldon has taught numerous university courses in Canada and the United Kingdom including introductory and intermediate macro and micro economics, labour economics, mathematical economics, public sector economics and statistics.
As a consulting economist, Peter Sheldon has widespread experience in the areas of program evaluation, econometric estimation and forecasting, and economic impact analysis. His background has also included questionnaire design and analysis as well as work with census data. Additional experience includes collecting and defining U.K. health care data for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Mr. Sheldon joined Associated Economic Consultants Ltd. in 1997. His areas of specialization are the estimation of tax gross-up amounts for litigation, fund management costs, and evaluation of losses from wrongful deaths. Mr. Sheldon was qualified as an expert witness in June 1999.
Co-Author of Economic Analysis of Claims Costs: An economic assessment of the Saskatchewan Government Insurance Autofund (August 2000). An economic assessment of the Saskatchewan Government Insurance Autofund.
Co-Author of the Submission to the Review Team on Automobile Insurance Reform in British Columbia (February 3, 1997), presented by Associated Economic Consultants Ltd. and Discovery Economics.
Labour Market Participation of Females in British Columbia (1998), with Robert Carson. The Barrister, a quarterly publication of the Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association.
Estimation of Labour Market Participation Rates by Birth Status for Families Resident in the Vancouver Census Metropolitan Area (1997) Discussion Paper Series, Vancouver Centre of Excellence on Immigration Studies, Simon Fraser University.
The Health and Moral Hazards of No Fault Insurance (1997) Public Policy Sources, Number 2, The Fraser Institute.
No Fault Versus Tort Insurance Schemes: A Survey of the Empirical Evidence (1996): A survey of the empirical evidence regarding the introduction of no-fault auto insurance schemes.
The Economic Impact of the Port of Vancouver (1995): An assessment of the economic impact of the port conducted for the Vancouver Port Corporation.
Long Term Unemployment and the Demand for Labour in the Stoke-on-Trent Area (1989) with P. Lawrence & L. Rosenthal, International Journal of Manpower Studies, Volume 10, Number 4.
Graduate
Studentship,
University of East Anglia 1985.
Nuffield Research
Grant,
University of Keele, 1988.
Graduate Student
Stipend,
Simon Fraser University, 1988.